Hugh Cook is Re-Published!

A curious wonder has taken place. Some of you may remember my extensive reviews of near-forgotten 90’s Author Hugh Cooks ‘Chronicle of an Age of Darkness’

You can read Part One (probably the best) here; https://pjamesstuart.substack.com/p/let-him-cook

And Part Two here; https://pjamesstuart.substack.com/p/he-cooked-zaan-olo-malan

Well, these reviews garnered me a smidgeon of attention for the crazed radicals at https://zenphospress.com/ a micro publisher set up by a small group of obsessive Hugh Cook fans with the sole aim of bringing the world of Olo Malan back into print. Something they have actually accomplished! The whole series is back, and available on Amazon!

Even more amazingly, I have been allowed to do a small introduction for one of the books; Book Seven ‘The Wazir and the Witch’, the second part of the ‘Injiltaprajuna Duology’.

Because of this, I have been gifted a Full Set of the new versions for ‘Chronicle of World of Darkness’; the new large size editions give a new vividness to the cover illustrations which, (while they still tend to have almost nothing to do with the contents of each book), look wonderful.

(I might be one of the only people on earth to own multiple full sets of ‘Chronicles of an Age of Darkness)

Even stranger, the only other person I could see doing introductions for this series (he introduces two of the books), is noted author Adrian Tchaikovsky, who was behind ‘Starseers Ruin’ which I mentioned in my end-of-year roundup here; https://pjamesstuart.substack.com/p/15-in-2025

Now my name stands on amazon; “by Hugh Cook (Author) , Adrian Tchaikovsky (Foreword) , Patrick Stuart (Foreword)”

Cook died young, leaving behind his wife and daughter, I have been assured by Zenphos Press that all the profits from the re-published ‘World of Darkness’ series will be going to them, so, if you would like to try them, (at a reasonable price), you can buy the whole series here. Or just try the first one ‘Wizards &Warriors’, to see what they are like the feminist grown-up one ‘Women &Warlords’, to see what tanked the series or the two set on Injiltaprajuna ‘Wishstone &Wonder-Workers and ‘Wazir & Witch’, one of which is introduced by me!